Back from the "parted" beyond. (f

[Georgina]

Hi

Silly me, didn't think of that one.

Gena



>I'm not sure, but what your problem might be is that Speakup is talking far
>slower than the system is booting.  That is, since the speech buffer gets
>full and takes a long time to clear the system doesn't boot until speakup
>stops talking.  Solution is to either keep your finger on the control key,
>or else press numpad enter.  This last command silences speech until another
>key is pressed.  After waiting about 30 seconds press numpad 8 to read the
>current line and if it is the login prompt then you've succesfully booted.
>
>Let us know if this works.
>
>Saqib
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Dan Murphy" <mweeby at nycap.rr.com>
>To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
>Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2002 4:57 PM
>Subject: Back from the "parted" beyond. (f
>
>
>>
>>
>> Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 10:30:25 -0500 (EST)
>> From: Dan Murphy <mweeby at nycap.rr.com>
>> To: Speakup list <speakup at braillw.uwo.ca>
>> Subject: Back from the "parted" beyond.
>>
>>  Hello listers.
>> Last week, I posted a question about partitioning a drive with Windows
>> already on it, and Parted was recommended.  I downloaded it from the
>> speakup site and attempted to use it.  Well I am now, sadly, only a little
>> sadly, "parted" from my windows partition.  (grin)
>> I'm not going to blame the program, rather just my ineptitude and lack of
>> experience.  So, now that I was back to square one, and I am not certain
>> whan I can get sighted assistance to reinstall the MS monster, I
>> partitioned the drive in 2 parts.  The first 10 G for the eventual
>> Windows, and the remainder including a good size 345MB swap partition.
>> for linux.  I have installed Slackware 8.0 on it, but I have a few
>> questions.  When I go to use the installation boot disk with speakup on
>> it, after I type "ramdisk speakup_synth=dtlk", it loads up but it takes
>> something on the order of 10 minutes to do so.
>> this is a 500 MHZ Pentium 3 with 128 MB of ram.  Should I rebuild the
>> installation floppy, or is there something I should type differently at
>> the boot prompt?
>> I must say, though, it is nice to watch Linux purr along on that as
>> oposed to this little P166 with only 40 MB of ram.
>> Thanks, and please excuse the rambling.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Speakup mailing list
>> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
>> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>
>
>_______________________________________________
>Speakup mailing list
>Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
>http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup